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Hercule Poirot's Christmas

  • 221 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 1938
  • 110 editions

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1 About this book

On the night before Christmas, cruel, tyrannical, filthy rich Simeon Lee is found in his locked bedroom with his throat cut. Now Hercule Poirot must put his deductive powers to the test to solve one of his most chilling cases - and to prevent a clever killer from spilling more blood.

Also published as Hercule Poirot's Christmas and Murder for Christmas.

  • Private investigators
  • Murder
  • Mystery
  • Mystery & detective, traditional
  • Mystery & detective, police procedural
  • Christmas stories
  • Religious
  • Investigation

2 About Agatha Christie

1890–1976

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Mallowan, Lady Mallowan (née Miller, 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), usually known by her first married name, Agatha Christie, was an English author known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short-story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot (with the novel debut being The Mysterious Affair at Styles in 1920), Tommy and Tuppence (with the novel debut being The Secret…

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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